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The Spurs started the game sluggish and out of sorts, looking like the scared, untested playoff team. Manu Ginobili missed an open-court fast break dunk… The Jazz out rebounded us by 6… The Jazz also had 8 more fast break points than us… Leonard and Green were mostly invisible the entire game… Splitter injured his wrist in the first half and never made it back into the game… The Jazz…

Another night, another 20+ point win. (30+, really). Yawn. 26 minutes for Duncan (who didn’t play at all yesterday), 22 for Parker, 17 for Ginobili. The most important thing to come out of this game: the #1 overall seed in the West. For not fighting hard to get it, we sure did take it pretty handily. Impressively. The playoffs are setting up perfectly for us, too. The way it’s looking…

If there was any game between the Lakers and the Spurs to take information away from, it would have been last night’s, with both teams at full-strength and having already sussed each other out in prior games. The results were very encouraging. There were only two things I wanted to learn from last night’s game vis-a-vis a potential playoff match-up between the two teams: What would the big man rotation…

We thumped the short-handed Lakers, probably like we should have at home last week. The truth is, the two teams aren’t nearly as far apart as each game might like you to think. And with no Kobe playing, let’s just call it even, move on, and hope that Friday’s game might bring a little more clarity to what could actually transpire if the two teams meet in the playoffs. Speaking…

The only excitement to come out of tonight’s game (besides the sheer jubilation of the crowd with the Warriors almost hitting 100 points) was minutes-watching and trying to predict what Pop will do tomorrow night against the Lakers regarding rotations, who plays, etc. After last week’s humiliating thumping at the hands of the Kobe-less Lakers, it seems the Spurs would have something to prove. But I could also see Pop…

I know it’s typical reactionary blogger/non-player reaction, but I thought tonight’s game was a damn-near must win. After last night’s stink bomb and with a surging Memphis team coming in that offers many of the same problems that the Lakers do, it was imperative that the team bounce back, play with more energy and focus, and get a win. Losing 3 games in a row (2 at home) is a…

I think Sean Elliott summed it up fairly well at the end of the game. In brief, he said that the Spurs respected the Lakers too much, started the game way too tentative, and got in their own way on offense. All game I was watching and wondering where the Spurs offense had disappeared to. This wasn’t the team I’ve been watching all season. And, as Sean alluded to, it…

I was all set to entitle this post ‘Freight Train’ and talk about how our offense was an unstoppable juggernaut. We had 55 points with 4 minutes to play in the 2nd quarter. We were on a roll; the game was ours. Over the next 28 minutes we scored 32 points. We still won, and for that, I’m quite happy. And this game had the feel of one of those…

I can’t remember ever seeing a better passing team in my (albeit brief) love affair with the NBA. Literally every player on the roster is an above average passer with excellent court vision, and the joy the team has in sharing the ball is amazingly infectious. I don’t think I’ve ever enjoyed watching an offense more. This is particularly evident playing against young, inexperienced teams like the Cavs. Offering little…

Oh mama. The full magnitude of the Spurs potential power was on display in Friday night’s convincing win over the Mavericks. As Sean Elliott kept saying again and again, this team is just super deep and amazingly versatile at every position on the floor. Pretty much every player can contribute meaningfully on both ends of the court (even Matt Bonner, who makes up for a lack of athleticism on defense…